, in Geometry, of an arc, is the same as the chord of the arc; but of an angle, it is a line drawn across from the one leg of the angle to the other, or between the two extremes of the arc that measures the angle.
SUBTRACTION. See Substraction.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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